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RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:44 pm
by Cap Mandrake
*************Nov 21, 1942(c), Bali Hai Dance Club, Perth************
RN Officer (please subsitute whatever defamatory or mocking jackspeak term would be appropriate here): <stands on bar stool> LADS! LADS! May I have your attention please? Thank you. Right, here is the matter. We are looking for merchantmen crew to volunteer for a supply run to Port Hedland. It is a matter of great importance to our lads fighting there. I am sure I don't have to remind you of that. Now, we estimate there will be a
soupcon of risk, but that is why we are asking for volunteers. What say you all? <quiet...even the music has stopped> Anyone? Well then, I am authorised to procure TWO free drinks for any man who will volunteer! <a roar rises immediatley and there is a great rush of men toward the bar>. THERE IS THE FIGHTING SPIRIT LADS!
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:00 pm
by BrucePowers
So how's the 32nd....?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:22 pm
by sprior
[quote]THERE IS THE FIGHTING SPIRIT LADS! [/quote
Tots all round!*
*Not small children
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:23 pm
by sprior
[quote]THERE IS THE FIGHTING SPIRIT LADS! [/quote
Tots all round!*
*Not small children
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:24 pm
by sprior
I can't type now, I knew that bottle of Chateau de Chassallay was a good idea.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:37 pm
by BrucePowers
[:D]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:20 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
THERE IS THE FIGHTING SPIRIT LADS! [/quote
Tots all round!*
*Not small children
Well, here is the good news. You may have had trouble typing but you DID NOT have double vision. You really
did post this twice. That is why you saw two copies. You also managed somewow to get your signature pic inside the quote box[:)]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:23 pm
by vicberg
Mandrake, you are missing your calling. Take all of these 200,000 (OMG) posts and write a book. "From the Bali Hai Dance Club, An Alternative History of WWII." It would be a best seller. Absolutely hilarious reading. I know you are already writing a book, I believe. But I think I read that somewhere 100,000 posts ago. Sorry if I don't go back through them
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:33 pm
by perkinh
ORIGINAL: zuluhour
ignore the boobs in the corner
Is that a Lucky Strike in her left hand?
Dang...Hot, a smoker, and i bet there is a tramp stamp somewhere.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:55 am
by moore4807
Hmm, after careful review...ahem I must conclude that the right hand (note- clubbing aound thumb)is NOT hers therefore the left hand would also belong to a Marty Feldman type hiding behind her and her hands therefore must be suitably engaged behind her...maybe even manacled? [:D][;)][:D]
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:21 pm
by sprior
after careful review
Nope, still haven't seen any hands.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:22 pm
by sprior
almost hilarious reading
There, fixed it for you.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:26 pm
by sprior
21st Nov 1942
No attacks at PH today. Good-oh!
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:57 pm
by BrucePowers
Are your fingernails getting shorter due to all the hanging on?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:19 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
21st Nov 1942
No attacks at PH today. Good-oh!
Yes. They will need to rest after the 600 disrutpions in air attacks on the 20th and the 3800 casualties in their ground attack of the same day.
Yamato is standing by to pound our boys and they are hitting us with Betty raids. Curiously, except for the two piddling night raids, not one single combat sortie was flown by our air boys over PH today. I think they were called off because of the Tojos. I am thinking we may need to put a couple of BB's at risk to shut down the airfield again. I will try some more night raids tonight and maybe a commander susbstitution and switching the P-38's to escort.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:20 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I was thinking about this. I wonder if the fact that we have no retreat route is the reason our units withstood a 3:1 attack without retreating.
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:34 pm
by Alfred
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I was thinking about this. I wonder if the fact that we have no retreat route is the reason our units withstood a 3:1 attack without retreating.
A bit more complicated. Page 197 of the manual deals with retreats. I understand you are time poor and therefore rarely have time to peruse the manual, so I'll quote verbatim a reslevant section.
"If a unit is (sic) tries to retreat, but cannot, it will be checked for elimination. Many factors are checked including morale, fatigue, experience, leadership, and terrain (for atolls). Troops on atolls will be eliminated if put in conditions that would require retreat in other terrain. Once elimination is triggered, if the defender is Allied, the force will surrender...."
Ok I lied about verbatim when I added (sic) but I swear the rest is ... well except for the ellipse at the end too.
Alfred
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:57 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I was thinking about this.
Wow. I mean wow. Just blown away by this. [X(]
Lord Admiral-are you OK with this novel development?
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:58 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Advice of Counsel: Someone asked about the absence of "fart jokes". This is quite an astute observation. There seemed to be quite a lot of that in WWII(b)(1), but, as noted, they have been largely absent from this "After Action Report" (hereafter referred to as "AAR"). This has been purposeful. In light of the possible passage of the Internet Copyright Act, which may include some retroactivity language, I have advised my clients to refrain from the use of such jokes. A recent discovery of looted material from the Baghdad Museum has yielded a "Writ of Mirth" from one Mordecai of Ur from 4236 BC.
"The bearer claims all rights to the use of wind of man and beast, to include it's musical note, objectionable essence, making of flame or silent but deadly habit, in all matters of mirthmaking until the end times."
This very comprehensive claim, if provenance is proven, would open up innumerable opportunites for litigation. On the basis of Y chromosome studies, there may be as many as 150,000,000 direct descendants of Mordecai of Ur, who is said to have been something of a brigand and philanderer.
I. Dunn Cheatham III, Esq/
* An example of prohibited material from WWII(b)
RE: With the Wren Detachment
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:09 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I was thinking about this. I wonder if the fact that we have no retreat route is the reason our units withstood a 3:1 attack without retreating.
A bit more complicated. Page 197 of the manual deals with retreats. I understand you are time poor and therefore rarely have time to peruse the manual, so I'll quote verbatim a reslevant section.
"If a unit is (sic) tries to retreat, but cannot, it will be checked for elimination. Many factors are checked including morale, fatigue, experience, leadership, and terrain (for atolls). Troops on atolls will be eliminated if put in conditions that would require retreat in other terrain. Once elimination is triggered, if the defender is Allied, the force will surrender...."
Ok I lied about verbatim when I added (sic) but I swear the rest is ... well except for the ellipse at the end too.
Alfred
There you have it! Sir Alfred, Knight of the Kentishmen and official scribe and barrister to King Arthur himself, has spaken.* It is all the Parchisi sets and pin-up pitcures of Miss Grable that keep our boys going.
* It might properly be "hath doth spaken" or maybe "doth hath spake" or even "done spake". I'm not really sure but you get the point.